viernes, 26 de agosto de 2011

En este día....


ON THIS DAY

On This Day: August 26

On Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was declared in effect.
On Aug. 26, 1906, Albert Sabin, the Polish-American doctor who developed the polio vaccine, was born. Following his death on March 3, 1993, his obituary appeared in The Times.

On This Date

1847Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.
1910Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia.
1939Major league baseball was televised for the first time when experimental station W2XBS broadcast a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.
1957The Soviet Union announced that it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.
1961The Hockey Hall of Fame opened in Toronto.
1964President Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated for a term of office in his own right at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J.
1974Aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh died at age 72.
1978Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and took the name John Paul I.
1986In the so-called "preppie murder case," 18-year-old Jennifer Levin was found strangled in New York's Central Park. (Robert Chambers later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and served 15 years in prison.)
2003Investigators concluded that NASA's overconfident management and inattention to safety doomed the space shuttle Columbia as much as damage to the craft did.

Current Birthdays

Chris Pine, Actor (“Star Trek”)
Actor Chris Pine ("Star Trek") turns 31 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini
Cassie, R&B singer
R&B singer Cassie turns 25 years old today.
AP Photo/Jason DeCrow
1921Ben Bradlee, Former Washington Post executive editor, turns 90
1933Ben J. Wattenberg, Author, turns 78
1934Tom Heinsohn, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 77
1945Tom Ridge, Former director of homeland security, turns 66
1946Valerie Simpson, R&B singer (Ashford and Simpson), turns 65
1960Branford Marsalis, Jazz saxophonist, turns 51
1965Chris Burke, Actor ("Life Goes On"), turns 46
1969Adrian Young, Rock musician (No Doubt), turns 42
1970Melissa McCarthy, Actress ("Gilmore Girls"), turns 41
1971Thalia, Singer, actress, turns 40
1979Jamal Lewis, Football player, turns 32
1980Macaulay Culkin, Actor ("Home Alone"), turns 31
1993Keke Palmer, Actress, turns 18

Historic Birthdays

68Robert Walpole 8/26/1676 - 3/18/1745
British prime minister (1721-42)
49Johann Heinrich Lambert 8/26/1728 - 9/25/1777
Swiss mathematician, scientist and philosopher
69Joseph-Michel Montgolfier 8/26/1740 - 6/26/1810
French inventor; helped build first hot-air balloon
50Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier 8/26/1743 - 5/8/1794
French scientist
42Albert 8/26/1819 - 12/14/1861
German-born prince consort of Queen Victoria
87Lee De Forest 8/26/1873 - 6/30/1961
American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube
86Jules Romains 8/26/1885 - 8/14/1972
French novelist, dramatist and poet
98Jerome Hunsaker 8/26/1886 - 9/10/1984
American aeronautical engineer
81Peggy Guggenheim 8/26/1898 - 12/23/1979
American art collector and patron
85Maxwell Taylor 8/26/1901 - 4/19/1987
American army officer in World War II
81Christopher Isherwood 8/26/1904 - 1/4/1986
English-born novelist and playwright

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